The Heat of the Moment

disclaimer- i do not own any of the characters to Kyo Kara Maoh neither do i make any
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Chapter 27

They sat on a hill beneath a large spreading oak tree having a picnic. Yuu and Dominique played an exciting game of chase while Yuuri had his head resting in Wolfram's lap. It was such an idyllic scene. There were bright purple flowers growing everywhere and yellow and black butterflies fluttered about as the children decided to chase them instead of each other. Wolfram smiled at his children as he raked his fingers through a dozing Yuuri's silky black hair. Just as Wolfram was about to call them for lunch, the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds as thunder rumbled across the sky. Yuu became very frightened as the thunder did not sound like thunder, instead it was a loud shrilling noise that did not cease. He and Dominique ran to their parents and huddled together in the safety of their arms. The shrilling noise was getting louder and Yuu covered his ears. He stared up into the sky to see some sort of creature made of fire and smoke was making that terrible noise. As it opened its mouth, Yuu was hit again by the awful noise and scorching flames.

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Yuu leaped up out of his sleep looking around for the shrilling noise. Spying the culprit, the boy sent a fireball destroying the alarm clock therefore ceasing the ear aching noise. Shortly after killing the alarm clock, Yuuri ran into the room to see what the commotion was about. Seeing his clock literally in flames, he sighed and summoned his water to put out the flames.

"What kind of monster was that?"

"That was no monster. It is, or was an alarm clock. It is, or was designed to wake a person up so they don't over sleep."

"Oh," the boy mumbled getting off the bed. "Sorry."

Yuuri smiled. "It's okay. Are you hungry? Mom has just finished making breakfast."

"I guess so." The boy looked away embarrassed as the events of last night came back to him. He could not believe he cried like a baby and in front of Yuuri. 'He must think I’m the worst kind of wimp there is to cry like I did.' “About last night, I . . . uh . . .”

"What about last night," said Yuuri scratching the back of his neck not looking at his son? "I don't remember anything unusual happening."

Yuu stared wide eyed at his father. He couldn't believe this man. After the way he had treated him, he thought for sure the older man would taunt and tease him by calling him a wimp or a crybaby. But instead, Yuuri was going to pretend that the incident where Yuu was crying like a baby did not happen. The boy gave Yuuri a hug and quickly pulled away as he looked down at the floor as though it was the most interesting thing he had ever seen.

Yuuri was shocked but his face softened into a smile as he could see the crimson color staining his son's cheeks. "I hope you like the breakfast mom is making for you. She decided to make it special for you."

"She doesn't have to fix me anything special. The maids back home taught me how to cook. I can fix my own food."

"Oh nononononono, here on Earth, children do not cook. They are not allowed to use the stove without supervision from an adult. Besides, if I know my mother she will put you in an apron and me wearing a dress is enough humiliation for one family member." He smiled.

Yuu smiled while shrugging his shoulders.

"Why don't you go take a bath. I have already drawn your water and there are towels hanging on the rack against the wall." He ushered the boy out of the bedroom and into the bathroom closing the door behind him.

Yuu quickly undressed and stepped into the warm water. Noticing several plastic bottles sitting in the corner of the tub, Yuu picked up a red bottle with roses on it and opened it. He took a careful sniff before taking another deeper whiff. The scent of roses assaulted his nostrils. He sighed in contentment and squeezed some onto the washcloth. Then he began to clean himself. Half an hour later, he walked out of the bathroom with the large fluffy towel wrapped around his body and another around his hair. Stepping into his father's old room, he was surprise to see Yuuri still sitting in the room waiting for him.

"All finished I see," said Yuuri smiling. He stood up and froze as he took a whiff of the air. He followed the scent to his son. "Have you been in my mother's bubble bath?"

"What is bubble bath?" Yuu frowned up at his father.

"It's what we call liquid soap. It sometimes comes in plastic bottles with either fruits or flowers on them."

"There were some bottles around the tub. I used the one in the red bottle. It smelled like roses." He began to dry his hair vigorously.

"I swear," said Yuuri. "My mother is worse than your grandmother Cheri leaving her stuff lying around for anybody to pick up." Then he went to the dresser and took out a pair of socks, underwear, blue jeans and a plaid shirt for Yuu to wear. "Oh well, I guess if you don't mind smelling like a rose gardens. I guess its okay."

"What's wrong with smelling like a rose garden," asked Yuu drying off. When he was dry, he tossed the towel across a chair and began putting on his white underwear.

"Well, on Earth rose scented soap is something you would expect a girl to use, not a guy."

"Why?" asked Yuu putting on the socks next.

"Well, because roses is feminine," said Yuuri.

"Why?"

"Well, they just are." Yuuri scratched the back of his head trying to come up with a good reason.

"But why?" Yuu pulled up his jeans.

"Uh, well, girls are . . . are soft like a flower. And like flowers, they are soft, smell good, delicate and very fragile. They have to be protected at all times."

"Yuuri Shibuya!" exclaimed his mother's voice from behind him. Yuuri jumped when he heard his mother's outraged voice. Both males turned to see a huffing Jennifer standing in the doorway. "I come up here to see what is taking you boys so long and here I find my son filling his son's head with all that silly male chauvinistic bull crap!"

"Mother!" Yuuri said shocked. He had never heard his mother speak in such a fashion.

"Don't mother me," she strolled into the room and helped Yuu to put on his shirt. "No wonder little Yuu thinks you're nothing but a barbarian." Then she bent down facing her grandson. "Don't listen to a word your father told you. Women are strong, brave, intelligent, independent people. We can do anything a man can do, only better." She stood up straight glaring at her son. "Come along Yuu," she took the boy by the hand. "Let's get you out of here before you are infected by your father's stupidity."

"Mom." Whined Yuuri. But Jennifer paid no attention to her son. She just walked out of the room with her nose in the air looking very offended by what Yuuri had said. Yuuri sighed in defeat. 'I wonder if foot in mouth is a legitimate disease because I believe that I suffer from a sever case of it.' Shrugging his shoulders, he followed his mother and son downstairs for breakfast.

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After breakfast, Yuuri took Yuu for a walk through the neighborhood. "What would you like to see?"

"Well, this is your world. You will have to take me," said Yuu walking beside his father with his hands clutched behind his back.

"Okay. There is a playground not far from here. How about I take you there. You can play with some of the neighborhood children," said Yuuri.

Five minutes later, they arrived at the playground. Yuu was surprised at the number of children he saw playing all sorts of things. The playground was nearly packed with kids of different ages along with their parents and grandparents already there. Some of the mothers were sitting on the benches watching their children playing on the monkey bars, the swings, and seesaws. There was huge structures made of squares and circles, and the children would climb inside sticking their heads out of the openings that cut into each square. Some boys were playing with shining rocks knocking them out of a circle. Yuu saw a group of girls that were clapping thir hands to gether chanting some sort of song. He saw a nother group of girls holding hands while chanting another song and going around in a circle, and then they fell down laughing. There were even a few toddlers playing in a sand box. While others were trying to get their kids to stop playing so rough. A couple boys had walked passed him wearing something over their ears. And Yuu would swear that he could hear music coming from the objects.

Yuu frowned as he turned his attention back to the playground of rambunctious boys and girls. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"I'm positive. Who knows? You may even make some new friends," said Yuuri sitting at the far end of a bench that two middle-aged women were sitting on. Yuu shrugged his shoulders and walked up to some boys that were playing on the monkey bars. Yuuri smiled as the boys let Yuu join them.

"Is that your son?" asked one of the women sitting at the other end of the long bench.

"Yes it is," said Yuuri.

"You and your wife must be so happy," said the other woman.

"I have no wife."

"Oh, you're a single parent," said the brown hair woman. "You are so brave to raise a child on your own."

Yuuri turned to the women and realized that they were getting the wrong idea, but he couldn't tell them that Yuu's mother is actually another man. No, he probably would be locked up in a padded room.

"If more men were like you, this world would be a better place," said the graying hair woman smiling.

"Oh, look Kazumi, he let your little Ai go up before him," said the dark hair woman. "Such a little gentleman. You must be so proud of him."

Yuuri turned back to watch his son and smiled. "Well, I can honestly say that he is a handful at times, but yes I am. I am very proud of my Yuu." Yuuri had to laugh as a group of girls gathered around Yuu talking to him.

As the sun slowly crept to the center of the sky, Yuuri's lids became heavy as he finally succumbed to sleep. His dreams were filled with soft blonde hair and shimmering green eyes.

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Yuu was playing with his new friends on the swings when he turned to see his father asleep on the bench. Sighing, he waved good-bye to his friends and went to check on Yuuri. As he walked up to his father, the older male had his head resting on his shoulder and was talking softly in his sleep. Yuu sat on the bench and listened.

"Wolf . . . don't . . . go . . . love you . . . please." Then he began to whimper.

Yuu eyes widened in shock upon hearing this man who had destroyed his father's heart by saying he could never love him because he was a male, was now admitting that he loved his father. Yuu continued to listen to his other father whine, and moan in distress for Wolfram. 'Just as you said father. He is such a wimp.' He sat on the bench beside his father and watched the other children play on the playground.

Several times the kids came up to him asking him to come back and join them. But he politely declined saying, "I have to watch out for my . . . my father and make sure nothing happens to him." Although calling Yuuri his father still stuck in his throat, it was becoming a bit easier to think of him as such. He raised one hand and brushed the hair out of Yuuri’s face. Then he scooted over some more and rested his head against that of his father's head.

They remained like that for no more than twenty minutes before Yuuri began to awaken. Yuu sat up straight and smirked at his father as he drowsily opened his eyes. "What's the matter old man? Didn't you get enough sleep last night?"

Yuuri immediately snapped up straight. "What do you mean old? I'm not old. I am still young."

"Whatever you say. Old man."

Yuuri was speechless and a bit shock as he saw the mischievous twinkle in his son's eyes. He nearly leaped for joy as his son was starting to warm up to him. The boy was already joking with him as compared to a few days ago when Yuu couldn't bear to be around him. However, Yuuri also knew he still had to take it slow. He still had a lot to make up for. "Old," sputtered the elder double black. "I'll show you old," he lifted the boy and placed him on his back, "to the arcade!"

Catching the bus, they arrived ten minutes later at 'The Blazing Mirage Arcade.' Yuu’s eyes widened in awe at the flashing lights, the shrieking and whirling noises and the packs of older kids playing at the strange colorful machines. "Wh-where are we? What is this place called?"

"It's an arcade," said Yuuri leading his son into the building. "Every day after school high school kids and elementary kids would stop by to play games. Come on, I'll take you to an easy game since this is your first time at an arcade." They went to the back of the building and found a few kids around Yuu's age playing some games.

"Here we are." They walked up to the machine. "Pac-Man. This is the easiest game around next to Space Invaders." He slipped a coin into the machine and clutched the joystick. "The object of the game is to eat all the dots before the ghosts catch you." He move the joystick and Yuu watched in fascination as the little round thing began to eat the dots and fruits. "You get more points when you eat the fruits. However, when you eat one of this little energy balls. Yes!" exclaimed Yuuri as his Pac Man got the energy pellet. "When he eats one of those energy balls then he has the power to eat the ghosts. See how they run from Pac-Man. But the down side to this is that it only last a short while before he returns to normal and . . ." Suddenly there was a strange dreary noise as the ghost chased and attacked the little round man causing its mouth to open all the way up until it disappeared. "And the ghost can attack him which causes you to lose."

"I think I understand the concept of this game," said Yuu.

"I use to come here a lot and play just about all these games." Then Yuuri began to look through the names of the highest score. "Ah ha! Here's my name. Ugh, compared to the other kid’s scores, I was just a novelist at this game." As the other kids went to another game, Yuuri smiled. "What say we have a contest? Let’s see who can get the higher score." He slipped a coin into the other machine. "Ready. Set. Go!" and they were off. Yuuri was in the lead. Yuu was having a little trouble but after a while, he had the hang of the game and was rapidly gaining on Yuuri’s score.

Yuuri had lost with his score at 567,325 but Yuu was still going. An hour and a half later, the machine began to light up with a shrilling noise going off. Yuu looked around in shock thinking they were about to be attacked when the owner walked out of his office.

"Congratulation young man," said the dark hair man. "You are the tenth person to win the game completely. Not only that, you are also the youngest. What's your name, son?"

"Yuu." The boy stared at the other kids as they gathered around him excitedly.

"Yuu what?" asked the man.

"Yuu Gilbit."

Upon hearing Yuu use his stepfather's name, Yuuri felt a sharp pain twist in his heart. He wanted Yuu to use his name but he guess it was to be expected. Gilbit was his other parent for his whole life. He sighed and turned away to save his name in the game as having a high score.

Yuu saw the sad look on his father face. He had a feeling as to why Yuuri was so upset. He thought about it for a few seconds and then shrugged his shoulders. It can't hurt to see him happy. He did, after all have a nice smile that was infectious at times. Of course, he would never tell him this to his face. Then he pulled on the man's shirtsleeve to get his attention. The owner bend down and Yuu whispered into his ear. After putting Yuu’s name into the game system, he turned to face the crowd that had gathered. "Boys and girls, I present the youngest child to win the Pac-Man game. Yuu Shibuya."

Everyone cheered. Yuuri's eyes widened in shock. He couldn't believe it. Yuu has just admitted for all to hear that he is a Shibuya. His eyes softened as he saw the smirk on the boy's face. His eyes began to well up with tears and it took every ounce of strength for Yuuri not to cry at the heart felt gesture his son has shown him. He did not want his son to see him crying but his heart was overflowing with joy until a tear escaped his eye to trickle down his cheek.

Yuu walked up to him smirking. "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"

"I'm not crying," Yuuri said quickkly turned his back and wiping the tears from his eyes. "Something just flew into my eye, that's all." He cleared his throat and turned to face his son.
Yuu stared at him with a knowing smirk on his face. "Yes, I know. Father use to always have something in his eye as well that caused him to cry."

Yuuri's cheeks turned a lovely shade of pink as he straightened the imaginary wrinkles in his shirt. "Come on, it's starting to get late and mom is probably worried about us." Yuuri lead his son out of the arcade and they headed home.

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Over the next few days, Yuu and Yuuri spent every day together going to different places. Sometimes Yuuri's mother would come with them. She tried her best to get Yuu to wear a dress but the boy was not having it. Seeing his father humiliated was enough of a shocker for him. He did not want to see himself wearing a dress.

On his third night on Earth, Yuuri had taken Yuu to his first official baseball game. Both returned home wearing Tigers baseball caps and carrying little flags with Go Tigers written on them. Yuu had a big styrofoam hand with the #1 on it. He was hyped up from the sugary snacks and sodas he had eaten at the game. Yuu sat down and told his grandmother and grandfather about how much fun he had and all the stuff he had eaten. Plus, the best thing of all that night to happen other than their team the Tigers winning the game. Yuu had caught a homerun ball. Even after Yuuri had put Yuu to bed, the boy was still excited at seeing a baseball game. He had to admit that it was thrilling watching the way the Earth people played the game. No offence to the men that play the game in Shin Makoku but there's just something about the way its done on Earth.

The wonderful time did not end there either for Yuu. One day Yuuri's dad took a day off from work and they called Shori and his wife and had a family picnic in the park. Then Yuuri took him to the movies and to the beach.

Yuu had been on Earth for ten days and the boy was having a wonderful time. He was sitting on the sofa thinking about all the great times he had with his other father. Yuu never thought this world could be so much fun and awe-inspiring. In addition, he never thought in a million years that the man he hated would turn out to be an okay guy. He was still angry with Yuuri for the way he treated his father but he was beginning to get a clear understanding of the man that is Yuuri Shibuya. He just wished his father and Dominique was there with him to enjoy this strange wonderful world with him. He sighed. "I wish they were here."

Suddenly the doorbell rung announcing someone was at the door. Yuuri was upstairs taking a shower and his grandmother was in the kitchen preparing lunch. "Yuu!" she called from the kitchen. "Could you answer the door?"

"Okay," he answered jumping up off the sofa. Suddenly whoever was at the door began to repeatedly ring the doorbell, which was making Yuu very irritated. Walking over to the door, he had to yell to the impatient visitor to wait because he was on his way. “Who is it?“ he demanded.

“Delivery,“ exclaimed the strange scratchy voice from the other side of the door.

“It's a delivery, grandmama!“ he yelled. It's what Jennifer told him to call her.

“Hold on a minute, I'll be right out!” she answered.

Suddenly the deliveryman began to rang the doorbell repeatedly once again. Yuu frowned in anger as the constant ringing of the bell caused a vein to throb angrily in his temple. Finally becoming fed up, and without waiting for his grandmother, he irritatedly yanked the door opened. The venomous words he was about to spew died on his lips as he stared at the people in shock.

"Hey big brother," said Dominique smiling at her brother.

"Well, aren't you going to invite us in, my son," said Wolfram smiling at the shocked look on his son's face.

"Father."